COH’s Associate Professor Liam Caffery took his informatics expertise overseas this month, giving an invited keynote presentation at the annual meeting of the British Association of Dermatologists in Manchester, UK. This is the 103rd year for the meeting, a world-class event for healthcare professionals and researchers with an interest in dermatology. His keynote was titled, "AI in dermatology through the lens of informatics" and discussed how the adoption of standards for dermatology imaging can impact artificial intelligence (AI).
Liam was invited in his capacity as Chair of the DICOM Dermatology Working Group. DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the international standard for medical imaging. Under his leadership, the DICOM Dermatology Working Group has published supplements to the DICOM standard for Dermoscopy and Confocal Microscopy, and they are currently working on supplements for Total Body Photography.
Liam is also an advisor to the British Association of Dermatologists’ AI working group and UK’s National Health Service who are implementing a national repository of dermatology images and associated clinical metadata for use in developing AI computer vision algorithms.
Liam’s work focuses on telehealth more broadly, but he has a special interest in teledermatology and skin imaging for melanoma detection. His past role of Manager of Medical Imaging Informatics at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and over a decade's clinical experience as a diagnostic radiographer is proving to be useful experience for the tasks at hand.
You can see more of A/Prof Caffery’s telehealth and dermatology work and outputs here.
